SPENCE-CRAWFORD, INOUE, UPCOMING MEGA-FIGHTS, MORE… || FIGHTHYPE.COM

Welcome to a different version of Magno’s Bulging Mail Sack, a Thursday custom right here at FightHype that routinely rattles cages, rocks boats, and approach too usually hurts robust guys’ emotions. This week, we now have feedback/questions relating to Inoue, Spence-Crawford, upcoming mega-fights, and rather more. 

Inoue, Spence-Crawford

Hello Paul

Hope you and your loved ones are having fun with the nice and cozy climate in Mexico.

I’ll begin with Naoya Inoue, I can’t place him as one of the best fighter within the planet however man…was I impressed? hell yeah! His jab is what stands proud probably the most for me, it jogs my memory to a major Quartey.

The explanation I can’t place him as one of the best fighter but is as a result of though he has been a unified champ at 2-3 weights, the one fighter he has fought with corridor of fame credentials is Donaire (be happy to right me if I’m fallacious). No matter this Inoue has a brand new fan in me.

The one remark I’ve about this Saturday’s combat is that I hope Crawford dominates Errol Spence to damage the rumored Canelo plans (if he passes by Charlo, which isn’t concrete). That is the one purpose which I don’t need this to be shut.

Hope you benefit from the combat this weekend.

Greatest regards

– Miguel

Hey Miguel.

I’ll go one step additional and say that if pound-for-pound is a factor (it isn’t), my take is that no person below 126 or at heavyweight can get the no. 1 spot, simply due to the shortage of numerous kinds in these weight lessons and a common lack of elite-level depth. It is laborious to determine THAT stage of certified greatness in case you’re principally preventing one sort of opponent. For instance, Terence Crawford’s physique of work– if we’re counting the relative talent stage and stage of accomplishment of competition– surpasses Inoue’s. And if Crawford beats Spence, that may surpass, by far, any win on Inoue’s ledger. 

Having stated that, although, Inoue is clearly a fantastic fighter and enjoyable to look at. It’s simply humorous to look at the extent of deference some followers and media members give overseas fighters and the way low the bar is for them to attain greatness standing when that bar is usually positioned unbearably excessive for our personal American fighters. 

If there are Spence-Canelo plans, I don’t assume they’ll be ruined by a Spence loss. I believe that combat might nonetheless be put collectively for combat no. 3 within the Canelo deal or perhaps a no. 1 in a brand new deal. However Spence will probably be tied to Crawford by way of rematch clause within the quick future, so I wouldn’t fear an excessive amount of about it. Plus, as you stated, it’s not totally a on condition that Canelo beats Charlo. 

Poisonous Fandom

Hey brotha, hope you’re doing nicely. I do know since you’re within the enterprise of writing I assume it’s a must to learn all of the nonsense on-line, however perhaps you don’t as a result of you already know your shit and it doesn’t matter what anyone writes, you’ll nonetheless have some attention-grabbing takes! I’m solely telling you this as a result of I made a decision a very long time in the past to not learn any of the feedback on these threads as a result of I discovered myself getting pissed off on the stupidity some individuals that basically don’t know shit about boxing write on these boards. Just a few piece of recommendation bro as a result of as soon as I ended studying that shit I discovered myself to be rather a lot happier. So long as the combat occurs who provides a fuck about what these envious trolls that go browsing to speak down or shit on boxing as a result of they hate their very own lives must say?

Anyway sustain the nice work brotha love studying your ideas!

Sincerely,

– Noel

Hey Noel. 

Thanks for the type phrases and recommendation. I hear you and I want I might simply fully lower out all of social media as a complete. Regardless of some pockets of sanity right here and there, the web Universo Pugilistico is a bathroom of bigotry, hatred, dumb tribalism, and misinformation (some intentional, some unintentional). Sadly, I do have to remain plugged in for the sake of my job. There’s not a day that goes by, although, that I don’t get pissed off and let down by the nonsense I see. I simply gotta cope with it till I get my “fuck you” cash and might retire from the enterprise altogether, lol. 

Subsequent Megafights?

Hello Paul,

I’m going to maintain it brief and candy: What are the following three Megafights you see realistically occurring?

Thanks!

– Alexis Arango from Portland, Oregon

Hey Alexis.

I assume it will rely upon what you rely as a mega-fight, however realistically, I say: Devin Haney-Teofimo Lopez (in all probability occurs in 2024), Tyson Fury-Anthony Joshua (additionally occurs in 2024, if Joshua doesn’t get picked off by Whyte or Deontay Wilder first), and Shakur Stevenson-Vasily Lomachenko. Simply my semi-educated guesses. 

Pound-for-Pound

Hello Paul! 

I liked the best way you acknowledged being fallacious about a number of issues. I name it “tirarse al suelo”. If you end up fallacious, and also you understand it, throw your self to the bottom very fast, or somebody will knock you. While you admit errors, you even take away somebody’s pleasure to right you, lol. 

Relating to the pound for pound lists: I believe you’re being a bit of too harsh with us, laborious core followers. I really like these lists. I really like the best way everybody provides his silly -or much less stupid- opinion concerning the matter. And you already know what? I actually assume it type of issues. 

The lists entertain me. Educate me a number of issues. Give me alternative to be a bit much less ignorant concerning the boxers who seem on them. And in spite of everything, is the boxing trade not a solution to entertain individuals? Is your devoted work not a solution to entertain us, your loyal base fan? 

I’m not making an attempt to make you alter your opinion. I’m even type of scared at you man! However I do attempt to say that, in a approach, being on the very high of the meals chain issues to the man above all others. There have been boxers who have been, in an undisputed method, thought-about #1 pound for pound. I’m positive it was a fantastic honor for Roy Jones or Floyd Mayweather, to call a number of, who have been completely one of the best boxers of their time. 

We, from a fan perspective, usually benefit from the debate that comes from the biased or non biased viewpoint of the media individuals who write from their pockets, from their coronary heart, or from their mind. 

So, enable me to have a barely totally different opinion from yours, however I believe P4P rankings type of matter. Each to the fighters and to the followers. 

Saludos, estimado Mr. Magno. 

– Carlos Navarro Sugich, from Hermosillo, Mexico

Hey Carlos.

Should you catch me on a superb day, probably the most optimistic factor you’ll se me saying about pound-for-pound lists is that they’re simply innocent fluff. I’ve little doubt that the fighters see worth in them as factors of pleasure and/or advertising and marketing instruments. And I do know that some followers get a kick out of following these things and debating it. 

My downside with pound-for-pound rankings is that they’re fully subjective with no set standards by which fighters are judged. And, seeing as how they’re compiled by the media, they are typically wildly influenced by bias and private agendas. The media pound-for-pound rankings, as they exist now, are simply as a lot a sign of media bias and desire as they’re of fighter talent, potential, and physique of labor. 

I reject the notion of pound-for-pound outright, nevertheless it’s your proper to get pleasure from these items in case you like. I’m simply right here giving my tackle issues. 

By the best way, greetings from Michoacan.

Into The Twatterverse

Expensive Mr. Magno, 

Simply wished to drop you a line to say how a lot I get pleasure from your columns on fighthype.com. 

Specifically I loved the right and applicable use of the phrase “twat” in your most up-to-date “Notes from the boxing underground” article. 

Inform me have you ever ever frolicked in England and the way do you charge our present crop of fighters? 

Significantly although, love what you do, I’ve searched round for locations you publish articles nevertheless it’d be nice in case you might let me/your readers know the place to search for you. 

Greatest 

– Ben (England)

Hey Ben.

Thanks for the type phrases.

I’ve by no means had the pleasure of visiting England, however I’ve labored with sufficient Brits to select up among the greatest phrases. Subsequent, I hope to wedge within the phrase “bollocks” in some unspecified time in the future! 

As for the present British scene? It’s seen higher days. I’ll go away it at that.

I write for a number of totally different websites, however the entire “good” stuff is at the moment right here at FightHype.com, the one place that may give me 100% artistic freedom. If you wish to take a look at a few of my “basic” content material, from after I was even meaner and nastier, take a look at: www.paulmagno.com. I’m nonetheless placing that web site collectively, so it’s not precisely a high-end structure and it solely features a portion of my full physique of labor in the intervening time, however I believe you may get a kick out of it. You’ll discover some critical stuff and a few flat-out audaciously evil stuff (like “Jose Sulaiman and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr: An Erotic Love Story,” for instance). Maybe, you’ll get a greater concept of why I’ve been blackballed by many of the institution boxing media. 

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